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8.12.4 InputSource Objects 
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1955' xml:id='l2h-1955' class="method">setPublicId</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>id</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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  Sets the public identifier of this <tt class="class">InputSource</tt>.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1956' xml:id='l2h-1956' class="method">getPublicId</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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  Returns the public identifier of this <tt class="class">InputSource</tt>.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1957' xml:id='l2h-1957' class="method">setSystemId</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>id</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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  Sets the system identifier of this <tt class="class">InputSource</tt>.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1958' xml:id='l2h-1958' class="method">getSystemId</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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  Returns the system identifier of this <tt class="class">InputSource</tt>.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1959' xml:id='l2h-1959' class="method">setEncoding</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>encoding</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
  Sets the character encoding of this <tt class="class">InputSource</tt>.

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The encoding must be a string acceptable for an XML encoding
  declaration (see section 4.3.3 of the XML recommendation).

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The encoding attribute of the <tt class="class">InputSource</tt> is ignored if the
  <tt class="class">InputSource</tt> also contains a character stream.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1960' xml:id='l2h-1960' class="method">getEncoding</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
  Get the character encoding of this InputSource.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1961' xml:id='l2h-1961' class="method">setByteStream</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>bytefile</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
  Set the byte stream (a Python file-like object which does not
  perform byte-to-character conversion) for this input source.

<p>
The SAX parser will ignore this if there is also a character stream
  specified, but it will use a byte stream in preference to opening a
  URI connection itself.

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If the application knows the character encoding of the byte stream,
  it should set it with the setEncoding method.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1962' xml:id='l2h-1962' class="method">getByteStream</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
  Get the byte stream for this input source.

<p>
The getEncoding method will return the character encoding for this
  byte stream, or None if unknown.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1963' xml:id='l2h-1963' class="method">setCharacterStream</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>charfile</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
  Set the character stream for this input source. (The stream must be
  a Python 1.6 Unicode-wrapped file-like that performs conversion to
  Unicode strings.)

<p>
If there is a character stream specified, the SAX parser will ignore
  any byte stream and will not attempt to open a URI connection to the
  system identifier.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1964' xml:id='l2h-1964' class="method">getCharacterStream</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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  Get the character stream for this input source.
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